Victor Amadeus, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg

Victor Amadeus of Hesse- Rotenburg (* September 2, 1779, † November 12, 1834 ) was the last Landgrave of Hesse -Rotenburg from 1812, from 1815 Prince of Corvey and in 1821 Duke of Ratibor.

Life

Victor Amadeus was a son of the Landgrave of Hesse- Rotenburg Charles Emmanuel (1746-1812) and his wife Leopoldine (1754-1823), daughter of Prince Franz Josef I of Liechtenstein. In the reign of Charles Emanuel was 1806, the Electorate of Hesse occupation by Napoleon in 1807 and the establishment of the kingdom of Westphalia for Napoleon's youngest brother Jerome Bonaparte. The partial sovereignty of Hesse- Rotenburg was doing, however, continue to be recognized.

When King Jérôme of Westphalia Victor Amadeus unasked appointed to his chamberlain, Victor Amadeus rejected this fails with the notice, he was imperial subject: To Hesse -Rotenburg were also Sankt Goar and castle Rhine rock, and they were now part of Napoleon's Empire has become. Then he accused Jérôme felony, after which Victor Amadeus fled to St. Goar. The emperor finally declared the Prince of Westphalia to the subject. After the death of his father, Victor Amadeus was forced to transfer the unpopular king, the palace of Hesse- Rotenburg in Kassel, to pay off a the distributed Elector of Hesse -Kassel owed ​​and now occupied by Jérôme sum of 35,000 thalers. Only after the handover of the palace confirmed him Jerome on July 10, 1813 Prince; However, Victor Amadeus continued to refuse to enter into the service Jérôme.

After the restitution of Hesse-Cassel in 1813 Victor Amadeus came back into his undiminished rights as Landgrave of Hesse -Rotenburg. In 1820, he received, in late consequence of the Congress of Vienna of 1815, as a replacement for the 1807 lost to France in 1815 had fallen to Prussia territories left of the Rhine ( St. Goar and Burg Rheinstein rock) by the King of Prussia collected simultaneously Mediatfürstentümern dominions Ratibor and Corvey, both under Prussian sovereignty, as Allodialvermögen.

When creating the new Bill of Rights to Administrative Reform 1821 in Hesse-Cassel, he refused any participation. He regarded the provisions as non-binding for himself and his possessions. Repeatedly there were negotiations with the Landgrave to move him to a severance Quantum, which initially amounted to 450,000 dollars, to assign all of its rights and Grundbesitzungen in Hesse. In the years 1825-1833 he moved the court library with 36,000 volumes Rotenburger after Corvey.

Family

His godfather was an uncle of the related royal Savoy family. Victor Amadeus was the last Landgrave of Hesse -Rotenburg. In his first marriage he was married in 1799 childless Leopoldina von Fürstenberg- Stühlingen. After her death in 1806 he married in 1812 Elisabeth of Hohenlohe- Langenburg, who gave birth to a dead daughter. After the death of his second wife in 1830 Victor Amadeus in 1831 married Eleanor of Salm- Reifferscheidt Herb home. This marriage remained childless. This went out in 1834 the house of Hesse -Rotenburg Rotenburg Quart and fell after more than 200 years back to Hesse -Kassel.

His possessions except Hessian Ratibor and Corvey he inherited with Testament from 1825 to his nephew Victor Hohenlohe, the crown prince to Hohenlohe. Prince Viktor took his majority in 1840, waiving his Schillingsfürster hereditary claims the title of Duke of Ratibor and Prince of Corvey on.